All - this was a message I wrote and decided not to send because it
was made obsolete by the telecon -- unfortunately, I accidently
queued it when fixing a time problem on my email. Please feel free
to NOT respond to it.
thanks
JH
At 1:22 PM -0400 4/25/02, Jim Hendler wrote:
>At 11:33 AM -0500 4/24/02, Pat Hayes wrote:
>>>At 12:31 PM -0500 4/23/02, Pat Hayes wrote:
>>>
>>>[snip]
>
>[long snip]
>
>>>If you won't accept it - let us know what you propose instead --
>>>otherwise we'll be forced to declare this issue closed and move on
>>>(which would obviously be silly given the effort that has been put
>>>into it)
>>
>>Nah, go ahead and declare it closed. What the f**k, OWL won't have
>>a semantics, but you won't lose any sleep over that, right?
>>
>
>Pat - that's unfair, ad hominen and just plain wrong. I have worked
>very hard to try to keep my personal views and my chairing views
>separate - and if you think I haven't, the process for replacing a
>chair is in [1].
>
> However, as chair I am taking the following position - if no
>volunteer comes forward to say "I will take responsbility" then the
>issue is noise, because it will never lead to something that appears
>in a webont document. I will certainly not be editing the section of
>our recommendation that discusses this issue, and I've seen no one
>step forward and volunteer yet. You folks have generated plenty of
>mail, which is fine, but if it won't become part of our report, I
>simply don't care.
>
>If you want to argue this scientifically, politically, socially,
>etc. than please take the issue to rdf-logic where it belongs. If
>you wish to discuss something that will lead to a web recommendation
>then someone needs to give me and Guus some faith that something
>might end up in our documents by the June target that the WG agreed
>to at the f2f
> -JH
>
>[1]
>
>
>--
>Professor James Hendler hendler@cs.umd.edu
>Director, Semantic Web and Agent Technologies 301-405-2696
>Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab. 301-405-6707 (Fax)
>AV Williams Building, Univ of Maryland College Park, MD 20742
>http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/hendler
--
Professor James Hendler hendler@cs.umd.edu
Director, Semantic Web and Agent Technologies 301-405-2696
Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab. 301-405-6707 (Fax)
AV Williams Building, Univ of Maryland College Park, MD 20742
http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/hendler